A Democrat and a Republican in Congress on the Blowback from Mass Detention
Though President Donald Trump came back to the White House with broad support for his border policies, his Administration’s immigration crackdown has been broadly unpopular. The staff writer Jonathan ...
28 Jul 16min
One Refugee’s Journey Through ICE Detention
In 2025, as ICE was struggling to meet an impossible goal of three thousand immigration arrests per day, the agency took an unprecedented step: picking people up when they arrived at immigration court...
24 Jul 34min
Pick Three: Richard Brody on “The Odyssey” and Other Summer Films
The film critic Richard Brody talks with David Remnick about three notable films this summer: Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” an epic adaptation of Homer’s poem, arriving amid buzz and huge advance...
21 Jul 13min
Rahm Emanuel Says Israel’s Path Is “Not Sustainable Politically”
Rahm Emanuel is a Democratic Party elder, having served in the Clinton and Obama Administrations and as mayor of his native Chicago for two terms. He’s a centrist known for valuing political wins over...
17 Jul 36min
How an Estimated Seven Hundred Thousand People Have Died from DOGE’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts
The Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE, has officially been terminated. Its July 4th sunset date was part of Donald Trump’s original executive order that created the agency, whi...
12 Jul 31min
The World Cup, the Knicks, and LeBron James’s Fate: An All-Time Summer in Sports
With all the sports news at play this summer, from the New York Knicks winning the N.B.A. Finals to Donald Trump having a direct impact on FIFA’s decisions during the World Cup, it’s time for a deep d...
10 Jul 18min
The Sounds of Summer, with Fred Armisen
The comedian Fred Armisen has a thing for sound: he’s a former punk-rocker who gets a lot of comic mileage from doing accents, and he released an album of sound effects—a modern update of a novelty ge...
7 Jul 17min
Alicia Keys’s New York Musical Goes on National Tour
The unofficial anthem of New York City is “Empire State of Mind,” the Jay-Z song with that unforgettable hook, sung by Alicia Keys. So it was only fitting that when New York celebrated the Knicks’ N.B...
3 Jul 32min
